All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
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As our country bled... its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.
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It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
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One must be frank to be relevant.
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The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
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The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.
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They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election.
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You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
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You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
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